it will seek nato membership following felons decision to join the alliance. prime minister mcclellan anderson called it a historic change in the country security policy. it ends 2 centuries of swedish military neutrality, both sweden and finland want to bolster their security. following russia's invasion of ukraine, turkey as expressed concerns over them joining saying they must 1st provide security guarantees. moscow has called it a mistake and said russia would be forced to restore military balance, including by deploying nuclear weapons. and we can now cross straight to stockholm and speak to our correspondent terry schultz. there. terry sweetest prime minister there announcing the decision to abandon to 100 years of military non alignment and apply for nato membership. one more. can you tell us? well, that wasn't an easy decision for either swedish democratic party, the ruling government party. in fact, they only came to this conclusion yesterday and thus, because many members of the social democrats still don't want to abandon that tradition of, of military non alignment. even with the t

chief litigator, michelle, are crucial as being to me a little earlier sweden's prime minister mcclellan anderson and finland's president solely in any store are meeting joe biden in washington to discuss their application to nate to join nato. the 2 nordic countries this week, set aside their neutrality and apply to join the defense alliance. in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. either turkey has blocked the start of accession talks in the nato council saying the 2 countries would support the band kurdish militia in syria. let's bring ended abuse, enos paul from washington in as wise the u. s. so confident the issues with turkey can be resolved. what can biden offered one another by an administration? god knows how important good business relations are for turkey. this nato member countries took his present, adeline, who's actually facing an election next summer, basically kind of ford, any economical backlash as his country is already struggling. so many experts here in the u. s. believe that out one actually does not really want to prevent sweden infringe, but finland from joining nato